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Autolauching an app when PA runs

Submitted by tajohnson on May 31, 2008 - 1:07am

I am new to portableapps, and first let me say that I think its great. I have two questions but since they belong in two different areas I will post only the one here. I am wondering if there is a way to tell portableapps that after it has loaded to start certain programs. For example I just started pnotes, and think it would be great if upon start portableapps that it just ran. Is this possible?

Timothy

Autorun malfunctioning

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Submitted by horusofoz on May 29, 2008 - 7:51pm

Hey guys

I downloaded the 1.1 platform standard edition and it worked quite well at first. However now the auto run feature isn't working. I mean the autorun mennu wont even come up. I downloaded the basic platform and reinstall to redo the platform without affecting my apps and for the smaller download:) Still the autorun menu wont come up when I insert my USB. Can someone please help me?

Many thanks

Horusofoz

PAFormance (Did you see what I did there?)

Submitted by LRawlins on May 29, 2008 - 1:56pm

Hi.

Having recently upgraded from a '4GB Sandisk Cruzer' thumb drive to an '8GB PNY Attache Optima' thumb drive I had hoped to see my PortableApps experience increase in usefulness threefold.

Precise expectations I know, but the read and write speeds of the new drive were around three times better than the old one. Unfortunately this simply isn't the case. Infact, the newer more capable drive has actually made PortableApps worse somehow.

How to add personal picture?

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Submitted by DotNet on May 28, 2008 - 3:55pm

Is there any pre-requirements before you can add a personal picture? I'm not able to add any picture as with any picture I try, I get the same error message: "JPEG error#53"

This really driving me up to the wall. details of the image is as follows; this size is 2.8KB, the dimensions 48 x 48 and the image format is .jpg

I have tried different images, with different names but all are cropped/resized to 48 x 48 size. The image is saved in the Pictures folder of my PortableApps USB memory stick I use the latest version of the platform - 1.1

Sunbird and Thunderbird data not transferred to new platform

Submitted by jgassman on May 27, 2008 - 9:19am

Please forgive my ignorance. I installed my portable apps into the new platform menu, however, neither Sundbird nor Thunderbird carried over the information. Thankfully, I still have the data (accessible by opening the Sunbird and Thunderbird folders without using the menu). Does anyone know how to transfer the information (calendar events and address book) over to the new platform? Thank you in anticipation of someone's help.--Jay

Icon Problems With Portable Apps Menu

Submitted by SlimDan22 on May 26, 2008 - 2:42pm

i cant get any of the icon images to show up on my Portable Apps Menu
it just shows the default unknown file type icon

This is what i get:
http://i31.tinypic.com/2j5l3ls.png

It is only doing it on my home computer, which is what i use the most

i have tried installing it on different drives and devices and same thing happens everytime

i also installed different versions of it, no luck

im running out of ideas, i even tried safe mode

Anyone got any ideas??

Drive name

Submitted by thegreenwizard on May 26, 2008 - 1:52pm

I use a few USB-drives, and every one has a specific name. But since I installed PA suite, the name of my drives was changed to "PortableApps.com" in Windows explorer.
Is it a way that I could keep the name of the drive in state of the general "PA.com"?
Thanks

Actually I use VistaPremium SP1.

No theme?

Submitted by alanhorkan on May 26, 2008 - 12:50pm

I realise someone must have done a theme that looks all plain like Windows 2000 but what I'm wondering is if there is a way to simply strip away the theming that comes with the Portable apps menu and let the boring old grey widgets show through?

So it isn't theming I'm interested in so much as stripping the menu down to the bare essentials. Any ideas?

wallpaper swapper troubles

Submitted by wolf99 on May 24, 2008 - 11:47am

Hey All

I am using version 1.0 with Mod30. didn't even realize what the wallpaper swapper did till saw it mentioned in the v1.1 release.

Checked out the old Mod30 thread and found the only difference was in the image file name.

but it does not seem to work! Sad
do I need to have privileges for this to work either for the Mod30 or the PAMv1.1?

If it doesn't work for the Mod 30 but will for the PAMv1.1 I have a second question.

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